DATE OF DISTRIBUTION: July 30, 2008               FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT

ABSTRACTED AND EN.CAUS.TIC:
TWO NEW EXHIBITS AT TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

      en.caus.tic, a group show of paintings by Suzanne Bloomfield, Deborah South McEvoy, Letizia Stanghellini, and Mauricio Toussaint, is on display in the TIA Center Gallery through September 30, 2008.

      Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, uses heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The paste is then applied to a surface and metal tools and special brushes are used to shape the paint before it cools. Sometimes heated metal tools are used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled. Other materials can be encased or collaged onto the surface or layered, using the encaustic medium to adhere it.

      Suzanne Bloomfield’s contemporary encaustic work blends pigment to heated beeswax with oils. The effect is a glaze of brilliant coloration, form and texture with a very organic feel. To learn more visit www.bloomfieldartworks.com.

      Deborah South McEvoy, an artist who works in many media, shows small-scale encaustics filled with color and detail. To learn more visit www.deborahsouthmcevoy.com.

      Letizia Stanghellini paints the things she loves: nature, the sea and the lakes, the waves. Her mixed media and encaustic work on wood panels represent water and light as the origin of the biological world.

      Contemporary Mexican artist Mauricio Toussaint’s encaustic paintings are created by overlapping layers and are not easily definable in terms of conventional categories. He uses drawing as a means with which he creates these unusual compositions, rooted in introspection. To learn more visit www.MauricioToussaint.tk.

      Abstracted features colorful acrylics and collage by Francheskaa Clark and Marti White in the TIA Lower Link Gallery through September 15, 2008.

      In her statement, Marti White says that she enjoys working with “very little pre-planning and seeing where the media will take me….Adding collage elements expands the process even further. Art is a journey of the soul.” To learn more visit www.artbymartiwhite.com.

      Francheskaa Clark has a similar approach, “When I start to paint, I do not have any ideas. To think of ideas stops the creative process. I follow my intuitive feeling about the painting and follow what the painting tells me to paint.” To learn more visit www.francheskaapaints.com.

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Marti White
Layer's of Gold
collage
20" x 24"